Edmund Burke

The arrogance of office has increased the distance between the rulers and the ruled.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The individual is foolish; the collective, wise.

The sublime and beautiful are often confounded; but they are really different.

Beauty is, for the greater part, some quality in bodies acting mechanically upon the human mind by the intervention of the senses.

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.

I have in view sometimes those only who are just entering into the world, and have nothing but the mists of prejudice and vanity about them.

The passions should be guarded from the contagion of the prejudices of the age.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent.

The greenest Utopias of oversocialized intellectuals and the most dynamic communities of civic-minded local activists are no match for the quasi-dictatorships forged by cunning political leaders.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a masterpiece of political philosophy.

The English have been more favorable to the spirit of liberty than the French.

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

The British Constitution deserves to be imitated.

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts.